Milburn over-reacting in row about body parts protection

12:00AM GMT 01 Feb 2001

SIR - The outrage of society at the removal of organs from deceased children at Alder Hay Hospital is understandable. But it is interesting that the same society sees no moral difficulty with the termination of almost six million pregnancies since the legalisation of abortion in 1967.

It is an ethical contradiction that we do not extend to a live unborn child the rights and dignity we demand for a deceased child.